Pegasus gun batteries

By SJE, in Battlestar Galactica

Just wanted confirmation when using the Pegasus' gun batteries. It states that you must select a space area and then roll the dice. I'm assuming that if the result of destroying a civilian ship comes up and there is no civilian ship in that space, then nothing happens?

SJE

SJE said:

Just wanted confirmation when using the Pegasus' gun batteries. It states that you must select a space area and then roll the dice. I'm assuming that if the result of destroying a civilian ship comes up and there is no civilian ship in that space, then nothing happens?

SJE

Yeah. The actual results of the die roll are incidental, you're targeting an area of space. Conceptually no different from if you (for some insane reason, or if you're Cavil) fired at a location containing *only* civilian ships and rolled "destroy 4 raiders".

Otherwise, if you shot the main batteries at an area containing only one raider, the game would paradox out, since there would be no possible legal rolls.